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Restoration with Restrictions. Haile Selassie is the nominal sovereign of liberated Ethiopia. The actual chores of governing are handled (through agreement) by British civilian and military commissions...
Although it has been argued that the government is sovereign and cannot set up any body on a par with itself, the fact remains that governmental units are faced with important problems of human and industrial relations. Grievances and mismanagement will crop up. The question arises: "What is the function of a union in this situation," and the answer is important both for the present emergency in the mines and future problems in government operated and controlled enterprises...
...land. Cardenas distributed over 45,000,000 acres of land to the peasants. With the backing of labor and the Indian peasantry, which still worship him, he built up the first socialist state in the Western world. Stubborn as a burro, Cárdenas fought for Mexico's sovereign right to control its own subsoil treasures of ore and oil. He nearly broke Mexico doing it. When he bequeathed his errors and accomplishments to Avila Camacho, it was as if a volcano had subsided...
...finest orchestral conductors alive, a sovereign interpreter of music old & new, is no solemn priest of tone but the ebullient son of Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...
...rate Shakespeare, lacking depth, dimension, verbal magic. But in its evil, hunchbacked hero, mounting through blood and stealth to the throne he covets, it has a thumping good stage character. Arrogant, brilliant, constantly dissembling before others but never deceiving himself, murdering without a qualm his followers, his friends, his sovereign, his brother, his little nephews, Richard can be a fascinating villain. Two centuries of notable actors, from Garrick to John Barrymore, made...